In response to a recent musical stunt in Cesena, northern Italy, where 1,000 musicians gathered to perform the Foo Fighters track ‘Learn To Fly’, Dave Grolh promised the band would play in the country. After conceiving the idea in May 2014, Fabio Zaffagnini worked hard to organise and execute the unprecedented event, which they hoped would convince Grohl and his band to play in Italy.
The event required months of preparation, promoting, auditioning, and crowdfunding the concept which required €4,000 to pull off. The organisers chose only the best musicians and selected arranger and composer Marco Sabiu to direct the musicians in the Parco Ippodromo.
It seems Grohl, 46, got the message and responded to the performers and Italian fans in a video. The video features Grohl sending a message in Italian, which translates as, ‘Hello Cesena, I’m David, hi, and I’m sorry, I can’t speak italian, just a little, just a little bit. This video, beautiful, really beautiful! Thank you so much. We are coming, I promise. See you soon! Thank you very much, love you, bye.’
So it seems Fabio Zaffagnini and the team behind the ‘1,000 rockers’ were successful in persuading the Foo Fighters to come to Italy. The band is famed for being generous to its supporters, recently they invited an 8 year old boy to join them on stage to sing ‘Times Like These’. They also allowed a drummer who was celebrating his 18th birthday to join the band onstage and perform ‘Big Me’.
